The Anatomy of a Divided World
I have lived long enough to see the world change in ways I could have never imagined. Yet, for all our supposed progress – the smartphones in our hands, the satellites above our heads, the algorithms predicting our next purchase – we have somehow regressed to a primal form of cruelty disguised as civilization.
Racism, classism, and religion – three words that should have been buried with the ashes of our colonial past – have returned as the sharpest political tools in modern governance. Only now, they are wielded with precision. This isn’t tribal ignorance anymore; it is institutionalized manipulation.
When I look around, I see a world more connected than ever before, yet more divided than it’s ever been. Every conflict, every protest, every war seems to echo the same ancient script: divide, polarize, profit. The actors have changed, the costumes are digital, but the play remains the same.
And what’s most disturbing is that this is not happening by accident. It’s being engineered.
Governments, corporations, and media conglomerates have mastered the art of keeping societies in a state of moral chaos. They’ve realized something sinister – that human emotion is the most renewable source of energy on the planet. Anger sells. Fear votes. Division governs.
The people who own the narrative, own the truth. And the people who own the truth, own you.
Racism – The Oldest Currency of Power
From the beginning of recorded civilization, power has always needed an “other.” The Romans needed barbarians. The Europeans needed colonies. The Americans needed slaves. The modern state needs enemies.
Racism is not a defect of human nature. It’s a feature of the system. It is a tool so powerful that it can make one human believe he is superior simply by accident of birth. It can make another accept subjugation as fate.
But here’s the new twist – the modern world has sanitized racism. It doesn’t always wear hoods or shout slurs. It hides behind policies, job applications, housing markets, and digital algorithms that “rank suitability.” Racism now comes in the form of data sets and economic models.
In Western societies, particularly in the United States and Europe, racism is now being rebranded under the banner of “cultural identity.” Underneath the language of patriotism hides the same ancient poison – the need to divide people by color, origin, or belief.
What makes it even more insidious today is how religion has become the weapon of choice in this modern theater of hate.
When I see Islam being portrayed as the eternal villain in global narratives, I see history repeating itself. The same mechanism that once targeted Jews in Europe, that enslaved Africans under Christian pretext, is now being replayed with Muslims as the scapegoats. The machinery hasn’t changed – only the victims have rotated.
And while these divisions rage, the true architects of suffering sit quietly in their glass towers, sipping imported wine, discussing stock prices and defense contracts.
The Economics of Hatred
Racism is not just moral rot – it’s an economic strategy. Every empire has understood this. When you divide the labor force, you control the labor force.
When the dollar was removed from the gold standard, something profound broke in the moral compass of global finance. Suddenly, value became untethered from reality. Wealth could be printed, not earned. Entire nations began living off promises instead of production.
And as central banks printed trillions of dollars out of thin air, they quietly transferred wealth from the working class to the elite – through inflation, taxation, and debt.
That was the real heist of the 20th century.
Inflation is not an accident. It’s a policy. The so-called “2% target” of central banks is nothing less than a state-sanctioned robbery of the working class. Every year, your savings shrink while asset owners grow richer. Productivity has doubled, technology has revolutionized industries, yet the real wages of ordinary workers have stagnated for half a century.
In 1955, an average American worker earned $3,400 – enough to buy nearly 97 ounces of gold or a home for $11,900. Today, the same worker would need more than $230,000 to buy that much gold or $450,000 to buy an average home.
That’s not progress. That’s institutional theft.
And yet the establishment has managed to convince people that this is “normal.” That endless debt, constant inflation, and a collapsing social fabric are just growing pains of capitalism. No – this is the design.
Religion as a Political Weapon
In the last century, power structures realized that religion could no longer simply control through faith; it had to control through fear. And so began the era of manufactured religious tension.
In Western media, Muslims became the convenient villain. In South Asia, religious nationalism was repackaged as patriotism. In the Middle East, sectarian division became a geopolitical chessboard.
This is not the clash of civilizations; it’s the clash of manipulations.
Politicians discovered that by stoking fear of the “other,” they could distract populations from the real issues: corruption, inequality, and economic decay. It’s easier to make citizens fight each other than to explain why billionaires pay less tax than teachers.
Every bomb dropped in the name of religion, every law passed “to protect identity,” every headline that amplifies hate – all of it serves one purpose: to keep humanity busy hating itself while the powerful keep looting the treasury.
The Digital Mirror and the Awakening
For centuries, the oppressed never had a voice. History was written by the victors, edited by their scribes, and printed by their sponsors.
But that era is ending.
In the digital age, every human being carries a camera, a microphone, and a megaphone. The lies of the powerful now compete with the raw truth of the oppressed in real time.
When a child is bombed, the world sees it in 4K. When a woman is assaulted, her story can circle the globe before the perpetrators write their press release. This digital transparency terrifies the powerful because it dismantles their monopoly on narrative.
For the first time in history, truth is democratized.
And that, I believe, is the seed of the next great revolution – not industrial, not digital, but moral.
The Coming Moral Revolution
Technology, wealth, and power have evolved – but morality hasn’t kept up. Humanity is still being managed like cattle by those who claim to lead.
But something is shifting. I can feel it. People are waking up.
They are beginning to see that progress without justice is regression. That abundance without fairness is decay. That liberty without equality is a lie.
This awakening will not come through governments or corporations. It will come through individuals – those who choose to live consciously, who refuse to participate in hatred, who call truth what it is even when it costs them comfort.
We are standing at the crossroads of civilization – one path leading to digital slavery, the other to moral awakening. And every one of us must choose.
As for me, I choose humanity.
